Archive for January, 2010

Need an avatar for you Moodle, Facebook, or other online account? Try out these two web based applications to help you create your ideal avatar. (With second tool, you will need to screen capture your final masterpiece and scale it to fit your online service.)

ipadio allows you to broadcast from any phone to the Internet live. Phone blog, collect audio data, record and update the world, or simply let your friends know what you’re doing – ipadio is integrated with Social Media & Blogging platforms.

Videos organized for students created by the developer of Wikipedia. This site uses the API provided by YouTube to create an organized, Wiki-like, useful collection, of videos. This is another great example of the collaborative aspects of the Web!

Kidblog.org is designed for elementary and middle school teachers who want to provide each student with their own , unique blog. Kidblog’s simple , yet powerful tools allow students to publish posts and participate in discussions with in a secure classroom blogging community. Teachers maintain complete control over student blogs.

The iPhone and Apps store has been garnishing a lot of attention, and with good reason. Apple is selling 350 Apps every second and has reached a total of three billion sold. Two that recently provide a good example of what is possible with these mobile tools are Dragon Dictation and UstreamBroadcaster. Dragon diction allows you to speak into you phone and it instantly converts you spoken words into text. This application works surprisingly well, and could become a nice alternative to touch typing. (BTW, the Google phone is rumored to have this capability built right into it.) The UstreamBroadcaster tool allows you to do live video broadcasts using Ustream and just your phone. This is an early technology, and there is room for improvement, but it is a glimpse into what is in store for the future. These two iPhone apps provide an example of the what the new handheld technologies can do and should provide the creative teacher with engaging ideas for activities to support student learning.